GKids/Studio Ghibli Release Thread - Wave 1 - October 17th, 2017

[Naiera]

Dubtitles are incredibly annoying.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by kevers7290

Dubtitles are hardly a non-issue. Unless you understand Japanese, dubtitles render the presence of the native Japanese track null as they are just a transcribed version of the dub. You may as well just watch it dubbed or on mute with dubtitles. The presence of the original audio with accurate subtitles is very important to a great deal of anime viewers.

I do understand Japanese. But I seem to recall that for the most part, the Disney Audio is closer than some of the original audio, so it should be moot.

[Naiera]

It's not.

[Bandit Tajomaru]

Originally Posted by gold ranger

i do understand japanese. But i seem to recall that for the most part, the disney audio is closer than some of the original audio, so it should be moot.

wtf?

[omarchafa]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

I do understand Japanese. But I seem to recall that for the most part, the Disney Audio is closer than some of the original audio, so it should be moot.

That makes no sense, so no it's the same.

[Jim Purcell]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

oh boo hoo. So, really, a non-issue...

It really is when you see a character speak, but see no subtitle for it. And then see characters not speaking, and see a subtitle for speech. Because the dubs don't actually match. There are more then a few moments in Castle in the Sky this is glaringly obvious.

[One-Eye]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

I do understand Japanese. But I seem to recall that for the most part, the Disney Audio is closer than some of the original audio, so it should be moot.

I think he's trying to say that some of the newer dub scripts don't take as much liberties with the translation as some of the older ones.

I prefer to have both different. If I can't stand the some of the translation in the dub or the quality of the dub (Billy Bob in PM, ) then I like to have the option to switch to subtitles that don't repeat the annoying translation.

[Naiera]

Speaking of waves; I finally got around to watching my Taiwanese Ocean Waves the other day, and I learned that the main character guy is Kamille Bidan

[InuYashaCrusade]

Spirited Away already cheaper than it's ever been while owned by Disney, ahh it's a good feeling.

[mysticwaterfall]

- Nausicaa (burnt-in dub credits)
- Ponyo (lossy Japanese audio)

Been looking at finally these all on blu (I had some on DVD previously) based on Svenges guide. Is that all that is really wrong with these? Because if so its worth it to save the 5 or so dollars to me.

[john iv]

Rest of the first wave hit $17.99 on Amazon.

Just to confirm?:
Current Disney discs with dubtitles = Princess Mononoke, Kiki, Castle in the Sky
Totoro (?), Nausicaä (?)

[Jim Purcell]

Did Mononke have dub titles? Those didn't seem as overt as Castle in the Sky's.

[One-Eye]

↑
If IIRC Princess Mononoke had normal subs on the original DVD release (under Miramax right?) and then later on Disney BDs is when they went with dubtitles.

Just a reminder then Dubtitles:

Kinki, Castle, Princess Mono, and Pom Poko

[gwfb5]

Originally Posted by svenge

Here's a list of what's on the Japanese BDs for the 9 Miyazaki films that GKIDS will be re-releasing. Of course there's no guarantee that any given bonus feature will be on the GKIDS release, though...

Castle in the Sky / Laputa:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- Clean OP/ED
- Promotional videos

Howl's Moving Castle:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- Interview with Diana Wynne Jones (8 minutes)
- Interview with Pete Docter (7 minutes)
- Conversation between Moebius and Hayao Miyazaki
- North American premiere screening (11 minutes)
- Hello Mr. Lasseter (16 minutes)
- How they moved Howl's Moving Castle (20 minutes)
- Howl's Moving Castle ~ scoring ~ sound ~ scenery (May 2005 broadcast) (28 minutes)

Kiki's Delivey Service:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- Video clip: "Ursula's Painting" (3 minutes)

My Neighbor Totoro:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- Clean OP/ED

Nausicaa:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- Commentary track w/ Hideaki Anno (Key Animator) and Kazuyoshi Katayama (Asst. Director)
- Toshio Suzuki and Hideaki Anno's talk "Nausicaa and Evangelion! Whereabouts of the Giant God Soldier?" (2009, audio only, 44 minutes)

Ponyo:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- Clean ending (Long Version)
- Theme Song Release Press Conference
- Dubbing Session Footage
- Premiere
- Interview with Hayao Miyazaki
- Producer Toshio Suzuki and NTV Editor Toshio Tsuchiya Discussion
- NEWS ZERO Ponyo Spin-off Segment
- Hayao Miyazaki Quotations
- Venice Film Festival Footage
- Theme Song Music Video
- Korea Version Theme Song Music Video

Porco Rosso:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- Producer Interview (3 minutes)

Princess Mononoke:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers
- "Princess Mononoke in USA" documentary (20 minutes)

Spirited Away:
- Full-length storyboards
- Theatrical trailers

Would it be too much trouble to post the features of the rest of the Japanese Ghibli Blu-rays? At least the ones GKIDS is re-releasing, so we can have an idea of what to possibly expect.

[burnin-snikers]

Originally Posted by Bandit Tajomaru

So did the Disney disk had the 15 minute Totoro / Grave of the Fireflies making of video on it?

Actually it is "Japanese release promo" (it was partially included on old Grave DVD). And no, it's not included on Disney's release and unfortunately won't be on GKids release obviously because of licensing concerns.

[gwfb5]

I was just looking at GKIDS' twitter page, and they have FINALLY detailed 8 of the upcoming releases.
https://twitter.com/GKIDSfilms/statu...23212935548928
https://twitter.com/GKIDSfilms/statu...22754380689408
They all come with an 8 to 12-page booklet, and they all claim to have "new transfers". ( I'm not really sure most of them could look much better than already do)
The bonus features are largely the same for most of them, No real mention of new subtitles, but that doesn't there aren't any.
Castle in the Sky has an additional audio track but it doesn't clarify if it is the extended score or not. (It just says Joe Hisaishi's original score)

[svenge]

The default English dub on "Castle in the Sky" has the extended orchestral score, while the original Japanese audio and the additional English dub track listed in the Twitter announcement both use the original synthesizer score. As for new subtitles, previous Twitter statements from GKIDS said that they were going to fix the "dubtitle" issue that some Disney releases (e.g. Castle in the Sky, Kiki, Mononoke) had.

[gwfb5]

Link to my original Disney vs. GKIDS comparison chart. (makes it easier for me to update it should the need/desire arise)
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=3039

[AllieFox]

Originally Posted by gwfb5

I'm Sure others have already done this, but I made a chart of the different special features between the DISNEY & GKIDS Blu-rays.

I appreciate the effort. I was just looking for this. Until about 30 minutes ago I had never heard of "GKIDS" nor did I have any idea they were re-releasing all the Ghibli movies. If the transfers are basically identical, I'll have to forego any new commentaries or featurettes. I don't think I can afford to double dip on them after buying all the Disney ones.

If you could do me one favor, could you change red to another color? I'm having trouble seeing the difference between black and red on my display. An alternative would be to get rid of the colors and suffix each line with something like [Disney only] or [GKids only]. Thanks.

[Hek_qwerr]

back at it again



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